Hello,
me and my dear friends from cod decided to create another night cup again 23rd February, so I hope we will do even better results on TheGoog's twitch than previous time. Everyone on this website is obliged to send this thread to all his friends from cod and promote this event, helping this way to make this game be great again. The most important information is that this cup will be almost with the same rules as during the 1st one - using single elimination format, taking just one evening. Drawing will be completely random, but it's last time when it will be done this way.

- 2 teams will delete from whole map pool 1 map by 1 and last remaining one will be the played one.
- Each side of the map will contain 12 rounds and the first team who is gonna get 13 points wins.
- Right after finishing each round there is gonna be something like 15 minutes of break and no longer.
- During all of the matches, all of the players will be obliged to use AC Veritas
- Demo must be recorded by all of players. (I will use the demos from best players to post matches on my YT channel as well). Here
- Register your team with 5-8 players
- Registration ends in 21.02.2019 at 21.00 CET

Whistle is going to make a fragmovie using the best actions from this cup, so remember to send him your demos as well if you will have decent ones -Whistle's YT channel

Registration format is same as during last night cups.
Register your team in the comment section below giving the names of all the players + if you have active clan website - add the link next also.

System of banning maps

1. TEAM A removes map
2. TEAM B removes map
3. TEAM B removes map
4. TEAM A removes map
5. TEAM A removes map
6. TEAM B removes map
7. TEAM B removes map
8. TEAM A removes map
and then last remaining map will be the played one

Before match is gonna start - both teams will do pistol bash and the winner will choose side where they will begin the match.

I recommend to not leave as last - "1 side map" where bashing will have very huge meaning.

Stuff punished by losing match
- no fog
- lag bind
- using more fps than 333
- if some player who wasn't allowed to take a part in a cup will play for some of the teams
- faking name of other player
- and of course any type of cheat

Using AC Veritas and recording demo is mandatory for all of players taking a part in the cup.
Each team can request sending AC files of any/all opponents, but only max 2 demos.
If both teams will agree before of the match to not use ac - then they can play freely without using it.

I've got so many questions about some of the rules within last months/weeks and I'd like to explain why I prefer to choose such and not other ones. I'm sure these will work the best for all of us.

1 match = 1 map
Since it's the night cup and we do everything to make it work fast without wasting time for playing useless rounds when winner is already known - I'm certain it's the best available choice. Try to think what would happen if in the same round there would be matches like: 1) one of top teams vs. a team of beginners and 2) 2 very good teams at almost same level. Try to imagine what would be a difference of time if there would be played 2-3 maps then.

All weapons
Since we go for 1 map per match we are forced to choose the fair way that makes most of the teams happy. It wouldn't be good if for once we would go for OMP and another time OS or OR. It'd be kinda waste of time to choose such way. Let's be consistent and let's use universal way as it is used at almost all of past cups (either in 1.1 and 1.5). And last note to big fans of for example OR or OS - even if we'd do some cup with such rules - it won't really change results so much.
+ if we'd go for let's say OS cup, some of the teams wouldn't register at all, same for any other weapon type without conting AW, so I hope it's understable why we will keep going with all weapons in all of the tournaments.

Additional maps from 1.5
Choosing banning system, my main point of view was to change a bit tendencies of the teams that pick in the daily funwars as their map all the time same map, over and over again. Because of my rules we can already notice that more of the teams started to play maps like depot, pavlov, etc - which is cool, because it's something new. Adding another maps would kinda waste whole that idea. Most of the teams wouldn't really practise new maps and after some time everything would be probably same again with taking same map as the own one. I'm not a fan of "one shot ideas" that sound great, but don't have any good influence afterwards. There is also way more reasons why adding another maps it's a bad concept. Let's say that we have almost same registered teams as during last cup, so it will end with the fact that 14/16 teams will lose their bans vs LEMAGIC and GotOwned (who have already big experience on them), what gonna make them way to reach the final even way easier. Very important reason is also that why people playing whole time 1.1 would be forced to play maps from different version being in an unfavorable position as a team which is the most active in our patch? This way teams like Scope would be punished, who are playing in 1.1 most of funwars on our scene for very long time.

No Hurtgen in the map pool
First of all to make our banning system work properly and fair for both teams - we should have odd amount of the maps (of course possibly the highest one from all available SD ones). That means that we are forced to remove one - why hurtgen? During the 1st cup I got so many complainings of different reasons like: it's way too buggy map, it's easy to abuse some of the commands that will be hard to discover on ac, it's not competitive and proper skill doesn't really matter and the last, maybe the most important one - it's not enjoyable at all to follow it on stream. In the 2nd cup we took Rocket instead of Hurtgen and even tho this map was played in the main final - I got no complainings at all from anyone, so I think there is no reason to change it and keep the only one hurtgen out of the map pool.

3 nades
Some of people complain so much about amount of the nades. In 1.1 it was for almost most of the time normal that it's default amount of them, so why would we change it due to crying of people from 1.5? Why people from this version who have played with 3 nades for all the time would be forced to use less in the tournaments? Some of the rules are different in 1.1 and 1.5 and it will be never same - no matter what. All of you can dedicate few minutes to prepare some nades and use them as best as you can, no one forbids it.

Kill cams
Several players asked me if there is any way to turn off the kill cams. I'm so certain that this will cause unnecessary delays, because without seeing them, so many teams/players will accuse opponent teams to use cheats, asking them after the match about ac/demos, just making a big drama. We haven't had any bigger accidents with AC in the night cups so far and I hope it will stay like that. I just hope that this way we won't waste useless time. People from 1.1 are used to see all of the kill cams and I respect it, so I won't allow to turn them off in the cups.

I don't know if we're allowed to go off topic or not, but here's a turtle:

Serious suggestion:
If there is really that much people watching , perhaps let them vote over what map will be played? Probably best to do that for the final only or something? Give the viewers what they want!

Kuba since there is a ban map system and no one asked for all of the 1.5 maps we just asked about neuville and tigertown you can just ban them . Hmm anyways i have no time too sadly but i will try to watch atleast gl man gl to everyone.

@Diesel, I understand your point of view, but I think that if someone would like to watch the stream of such cup, he will follow it no matter what map it's gonna be. Without active teams there would be no place to create such tournnaments and players taking a part aren't like the animals in the circus who'll do whatever they will be forced to (sorry for rude comparison), but it kinda feels like that, being a player who plays in such cups without having any influence on the choice of the map. It also a bit destroys a bit my main concept (that I mentioned above saying why we won't add any new maps) - practising all 9 maps it's a little bit too much. Banning system allows any team to remove for opponent 4 best maps, so it still should be very interesting to watch maps where both teams are not playing at the highest possible level.

I#m excited how well monkaS will play in the cup. They seem very strong in the last time.
v1G is also trying to gather some players for the cup! for now we have not enough players but maybe one or another will get some motivation to participate here.

@Adiii, I don't mind to make command /sv_pure 1 work in our cup/s - if you will prepare 8 servers where such command will work and you'll make sure that it's going to work properly without kicking people who don't have any modified pk3 files, ok?

FD, Kuba, You are so fast, pliz, wait me, my asks/edits! I am from Russia, I have too high ping to make realtime speaking!
"such command will work and you'll make sure that it's going ..." As far as I know: there are no problems in using sv_pure on on the server, if clients really have only pk3 files installed from the game. This is at least. And, even if you use some rcontool on the client, this will not lead you to kick from the server.

"Try to do it yourself as I nicely asked and you will see if it's possible ..." Can you tell me more in detail what the problems are?
"+ Thanks for the part where you admit that hoster should take care ... " ME NO HOSTER - it's just a joke. Look:

If you have any other maps than default maps, command sv_pure 1 will not allow you to enter the server or will kick you out automatically. It would be nice to have this command enabled because that assures us that there has been no changes made when it comes to models/skins/gamefiles.

It would be very nice if the servers could be prepared before you join them, so the moment people join to t=play the war there is already AW gametype on.

btw. monkaS server will be prepared for the cup/

"U wont get kicked cause u got a rcontool inside the main thats bullshit." that may be true but actually that's strange i remember back in the days there was 1 server with sv_pure and sometimes i could sometiems i couldn't i guess it depends on something

The servers arent the problem there. In the first nightcup we were prepared for sv_pure 1 but nearly every other team couldnt do it and they got kicked from the server so we put it off cause we dont wanted any delays from the first match on.
If everyone would check it before there wouldnt be a problem with it.
Removing all custommaps and checking your pak0-6 (date of editing and size of the files) isnt that hard if you ask me.
U wont get kicked cause u got a rcontool inside the main thats bullshit.

i think rcontools can cause a kick due to sv_pure 1. Not the normal ones just changing font. but the ones whom are changing the picture or sound can.
In my opinion sv_pure should be standard. For the chrismas event a clean version of 1.1 was offered. Or just install it in a new folder. simple is that

I am not using rcontool since a year, and i can set the server with every gametype and weapontype, Pure means pure.

To make it work with sv_pure 1, you need to download new cod, make it as a serious one (cheaters gonna complain about creating an other one) put there your config_mp.cfg / some other scripts like nadethrow or else, and HERE YOU ARE ITS WORKING

To make myself clear - I don't have anything against using /sv_pure at all cup servers, but I remember my tries before of the 1st cup and not so many people have tried to find solutions how to not be kicked without having any modificated pk3 files.

I will tell you why I've felt that it's kinda hopeless to try make rule with using /pure at all servers. Before 1st cup within like 3 last hours before of 7 pm (when it was the time supposed to be a start of the cup) I got literally about 40 private questions on ts and on this website, asking about fixing issues with ac, about some rules to explain them and many more. No matter how many times I've tried to ask everyone to prepare everything (fix issues with anticheat, etc), but still people have dared to ask me such questions even 15 minutes before of the start - so please, don't be surprised I'm tired of explaining some stuff like telling to people to be prepared for using /pure on the servers, because probably we wouldn't be able to begin at the right time due to problems with it of few teams.

To make it clear again, we - as GotOwned, don't have anything against using working pure - if someone would like to set this command on war servers and check if it will work properly playing vs us - we will be happy to prove we don't have anything suspicious in our main folders.

I actually recommend to all of current teams to try to use it at all your war servers, maybe this way we will slowly approach to make it work on such cups without larger problems if it will become as normal thing on war/public servers as well

It's actually the best possible way to choose for the night cups, having 8+ players up to play in some clan. You can't really count on a lot of 5n5's in there, without mentioning about anything larger. 8 teams will play just 1 match (1 map), another 4 teams just one match more - only top 4 teams reaching semi-finals will play 4 matches in total in such tournament, so it's very good idea to give opportunity for everyone to play - choosing this way

Everyone who is looking for a team posted an information here about, so it's easy for them to talk with each other. As long someone of them won't do that making sure that they will play together - as long I won't force them to do that. By the way there is no any reckless rush needed. I've heard there are more interested teams than left slots, so I'm almost certain we will have full bracket with 16 teams

Btw - I'll close registration once we will have 16 teams, without letting to any other team to join afterwards.

schiepy - maybe in some way you are right, but I'm sure all of active clans know about the cup for long time and there is no point to postpone it. If there will be even mixed team with nice will to play and practise to show up in cool way then I don't have anything against it if they will be faster that some clans that wait with registering for no proper reason

Hello, I would like to be putted on the "Subs List" until I find a team. Anybody can talk to me here if he wants me on the cup with him on a team, I can show my best, I don't have a team, so you can pm me here or on dvotx.org anytime and we can play as long as I know and also I will tell you later if I couldn't. Good luck for you all guys!

Stream live will be available here, so follow this channel right now to not miss any of such events + promote this channel to your friends from cod to get even more people watching this festival of cod - https://www.twitch.tv/v1gthegoog

It's in interest of every single person playing cod to make such tournaments bigger and bigger, so don't be neutral and dedicate that few damn valued seconds of your life to advertise this stream to others (this naughty comment is directed to people who never do such stuff )

Masked Warriors Clan, we are still three for now: Schwarz, Antonio and I. Hopefully we get at least the fourth soon, anyway if anyone would like to join us contact with us on our new website below or add me on discord:A!Capone#2406, steam:HaythamTahboub
Masked-warriors.enjin.com

To prepare well during last week before of the cup - the easiest way to search and play a lot of funwars in 1,1 is to connect to teamspeak that is used by most of this community of 1.1 - ts3.dvotx.org and join to the channel called - "Search Wars -- 1.1 / Want to sub?"
There you will be asked by a lot of teams to play fw or just sub if you are alone atm

If you are looking for a clan war, just change your name like - "TEAM A, 4on4 - Server ON/OFF"
If you simply wanna sub, just use your real tag - "Player A - Sub"

All of needed setting are working + /sv_pure 1 are set properly. If someone wants to test the server, just pm me or Huepfer to ask for pw or rconpassword to play funwars there to check if everything will be okay.

Clan leaders, including all members are obliged to make sure that AC Veritas works properly for ALL of players taking a part in the tournament (I mean clan members). If there will be any situation proving that someone cheated during the cup or any clan ignored my request of making sure that no one has problems with using anticheat or play on servers with /sv_pure - I'm going to punish whole team in the next cups. Just to motivate each clan to take care of stuff that we have asked for in this topic.

If any player will send after some match unusable file of AC - result will be the same and whole team won't participate in the next cup. (If you really believe it was an accident, that during the cup it happend for the first time - you can easily prove it, showing some other ac file, got in the last days in some of the funwars).

Some of the players are suspected to be cheating, so this way we will punish people who allow for it in their teams if such people actually cheat.

Additional info
If you have any problems with running Veritas - I'm not a person to solve your issues with AC since I've never had any problems with it myself. Fix it with your team members or create a proper threads on this forum, describing as many details as you can share with us.

After some testing on the cup servers it seems that you can have the maps in main (such as wawa which was the map tested or bhop maps which are in my main folder), but can not have rcon tools unless they are really simple.

There is still a decent amount of active teams/players who haven't signed up yet, so I will repeat myself once again, showing to such people what the consequences might appear for them by skipping this cup if you plan to participate in another ones in future.

In long story short - it's the last time where drawing the bracket will be completely random and since the 4th cup there will be seeding system basing on results from previous cups. So if for some reason you will skip this cup - you put yourself in very hard spot trying to play in 4th and in another ones after.

In a case of having just 13 teams, then 3 teams - GotOwned, The Myth of and Scope will have a free 1st round. (Due to results from previous night cups).

+ one additional info - Teams of The Myth of and Ave will be set in the different parts of the bracket (which means they can't meet each other in any other match than potential final or 3rd place decider).
It will be the same story if some team (like for example monkaS) will decide to make 2 teams for the cup.
I'm recommending to choose this way to all of teams having 8+ players ready to play on Saturday, because you can not predict vs who you will play and most of matches will be played in 4n4 format (since you can't force opponents to play with larger format if they don't want to).

I apologize as per I do not understand exactly how it all will go. I haven't participated in these night cups before, so... all the matches listed in the brackets, the teams... will be playing in the same time? Or one match at a time? I am asking as per i won't be online right at 19:00 CET but more like 21. That means i wont be able to play for my team?

All of the matches of 1st round start at 19:00 CET and there are no exceptions, because we have to do whole cup just during one evening/night, where final won't take a place at 4.00 AM or so. If you can't be exactly at this time - then you have to count on your teammates to get through first game to play in some of the other matchs in next rounds. 2nd round starts right after 1st one without any break.

If any of the teams will have some problems with the line up on Saturday, then you have to know that taking 1 sub is allowed, when team of opponents will agree for it. Such sub can not be a part of any team participating in the cup.

16 teams registered (just in time ), so all of the teams will start in the 1st round

I will start streaming on my channel in few minutes - I will do some tests first and the official bracket will be done at 21:00 CET. Remember the only one conditions - bracket will be ready when The Myth of and AVE will be set at 2 different parts of ladder.

Heyyy,
as we are not participating in this tournament I will stream and commenate some matches.
I made a poll so you can vote which match you want to get streamed in first round.
Vote here https://www.strawpoll.me/17476285

@Memz As you have asked too late, there is only an option for you to ask any of the teams if they would allow you to play with them. There are some teams with rosters that are not yet full so try to find them and contact them.

Night Cup #4 will be organized 23rd Match - 1 month after incoming one
Remember to share this info at both streams to inform about that all people watching - trying this way to get more players and teams to participate in next one

Hey guys, as a commentator I wish all of you good luck today. Which games I'm going to play which I'm going to commentate is still unclear.

However there's an idea that any team which I'd happen to be commentating the game of could send me some text about them - something we as commentators could say about the team to introduce it to people watching it. If you happen to be interested, send me a pm here on forums or on the team speak.

The idea is to make it a bit like before a boxing fight or before ESL LAN finals kind of thing...

Please, dedicate some time to promote stream from this event to your mates from cod - let's get as many people to watch as it's possible. Bringing more people to take a part in this event it's in your interest, because then more people will come back to play this game, so it will be easier in future to create such tournaments + it will be more interested teams/players to participate in such competitions and simple daily activity will be more noticable (will be easier to find funwars, etc). Be a real part of this event and give something from yourself sharing streams to other people - that's all you need to do to help with making this game great again

Schedule of the matches:
1st round - 19.00 CET - all of the teams start at this hour*
2nd round - followed by 1st match**and then important note
1st semifinal will be played when all teams will be done with their 2nd matches. Second semifinal will be played right after first one, to let everyone watch all of the top matches at TheGoog's stream.
Right after 2nd semifinal will be played 3rd place decider and as the last one obviously the main final. Both finalists will decide before of the match (depending on the time) if their game will be played in bo1 or bo3 format.

*Please, check if you can connect to the proper server without any problem and if ac works properly to start at the right time. If some of the team will produce too big delay - I'm going to kick them out of the cup. At 19:00 CET you are all supposed to be on the server without exceptions.

** After finishing 1st match don't do useless breaks and do banning maps with opponent team right after and play your match at one of the servers that you used in 1st round.

Lol, our match vs paranoi[A] was a bit of joke, since I didn't close dvotx ts, and somebody poked me, my mates couldn't hear me at ts since then (I'm sure it's a problem connected with AC, as sometimes straight after running ac, someone can't hear me). So I was talking all the time just to myself. I couldn't realize that for a long time, when I did I didn't know why it happened. Then I came at ts, closed poke messages and everything was ok again. Although it was in last round. But well, we would lose anyway, maybe we'd just get a few rounds more. GG paranoi[A].

You cannot predict anything in NightCup haha. It's so great to see that many teams improve and playing on really good level. MonkaS is perfect example of that, so as ParanoiA and that this tournament is not about only decent 3 teams.

I want to thank everyone who joined watching hehu and me casting some matches
It was a nice experience to make and ofc special thanks to everyone who followed my channel and to Kuba who gave one of the semis to my channel.
You can rewatch the games here: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/385493586

I'm reminding that I'm trying to collect all demos from this cup as fast as it's possible (before part of people will lose/delete them). So everyone who would like to share me his demo, send me it via private message

+ Whistle is going to make a fragmovie using best actions from this tournament too, so keep it in mind also!

Please, get out all of people form publics servers, funwars and get them to watch the stream, send it literally to all people you know from cod
TheGoog will host prm's stream and we will wait some time with starting to get all people ready on the stream

Congratulations to GotOwned, you showed one more time that you are the one dominating and it takes hours of training to achieve your level. I'm proud as a monkaS member because of how we played this cup. See you on the map during revange. I also wanted to thank everybody watching us, thanks to Kuba and his friends for hosting it and for streamers to make it a nice show and experience.

Thanks for all those of you who took a part in our cup and those who have been working on the servers to make them all work properly. Also, thanks to those of you who have been streaming and commentating, the people who have been watching the stream and those of you who has been sharing and promoting this cup to others. We could not have done this without you, guys. Your positive input made it possible to run all of these night cups well. I hope we can keep it up making future nightcups even more popular, with more teams participating and more people watching the stream!

I hope that more teams will follow monkaS and their approach of preparing and improving a lot in the weeks before the cup and making a huge surprise getting to the final. They proved together with ParanoiA that it's possible to get to semi-finals with a positive approach with improving as a team, so don't be fooled that the semi-finals and final is always played by the same 'top' teams over and over.

Another Night Cup will be organized in 1 month! The amount of teams that can participate is unlimited. If there are more than 16 teams then there will be a prepared qualification stage to the final day with 16 teams. If anyone is at all interested in joining a team playing in the Night Cup, here you can find a page with all the currently active clan websites. Page with active clan websites Don't worry if some of the clan websites are not that active, because due to rewarding teams with better seeding before the 4th cup, most of the teams will be more active and hopefully there will be more clan websites.

Right after posting TMO League on my channel, I will start to upload all of matches that took a part in all night cups without missing any of them. Anyone who wants to send me his demo - do it via private message. Matches will be uploaded here - Link to my YT channel Please, support me subsribing my channel and sharing it to others to make my work easier and more enjoyable In future I will probably also stream some of the matches during such events from my perspective

From today points system reffering to reward teams with active clan websites adding ALL clan wars will apply. Any clan war that wasn't added from now until Night Cup #4 starts will deduct 1 possible point to get.

I hope this idea will make people make 1 solid team for them without changing it month by month without a proper reason, since constant teams will be rewarded with better seeds in next night cups

Step 1: tell any clan: "no way you can beat us on hurtgen, we are better than you"
Step 2: all cod 1 clans get cocky and say: "pfft we no scared, we win ez against you on hurtgen"
Step 3: Hurtgen is played
Step 4: ....
Step 5: Cup win 4 wY6
Step 6: Emy will finally notice me

It's not about being able to play hurtgen, it's about having to worry about 1 map less, we are old and bad we need every advantage we can get